In "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, how does the narrator's point of view reveal Giovanni's struggle with the advancements of science?

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In terms of the narrator's point of view, we
learn several things throughout the story regarding his feelings about the experiments and the
scientific advancement they represent. Some are inferred in his observations, while others he
confronts openly.

When the narrator's colleague, Baglioni, discusses
Rappaccini's brilliance with his lack of concern for human life, warning the narrator against
Rappaccini, the narrator is not put off. When he gets a sense of evil eminating from the garden,
the narrator overlooks the feeling. Even when the narrator sees two creatures diethe lizard and
the insecthe does not embrace these observations...

Question: Read the short poem below that was included at the beginning of Emerson's Nature. What elements of Transcendentalism are in this poem? A...

was a
movement in the late 1820s and 1830s. The ideas are not religious in nature, but an
understanding of life and how everyone is connected in the world. Key concepts of the movement
included linking people with nature and each other across cultural or racial divides. The 1836
publication of "" includes a quote from Roman philosopher Plotinus, and the poem was
included in the 1849 edition.

"A subtle chain of countless ring / The
next unto the farthest brings;"

The first two lines of the poem speak
to the countless rings which bind everyone to the farthest, referencing things...

Why was the crowd silent when Hester endured her punishment?

One could
argue that the crowd are silent because, as Puritans, law and God's word are synonymous. Their
silence, therefore, can be interpreted as awestruck reverence for what they regard as the just
punishment offor the crime of adultery.

It's notable that, before Hester's
punishment and before she's released from prison, the Puritan women gathered outside have a lot
to say about Hester and her brazen defiance of law and convention. But then, at that point, she
hasn't been punished yet. It's only when Hester actually takes to the scaffold and is forced to
wear the scarlet letter that the women, along with the rest of the crowd, fall silent. Their
silence is a recognition that divine punishment is being meted out before their very eyes. God
is speaking, and they must listen in hushed reverence.

What is a summary of Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe?

Shell
Shaker is a story of a Choctaw family and their struggle to deal with the corruption
in their tribe. The chronicle spans between 1738 and 1991; the eighteenth-century Choctaw land
becomes Mississippi, then becomes twentieth-century Oklahoma.

Redford
McAlester, the tribal chief, is murdered. Auda Billy, who is found unconscious with a gun next
to her, is suspected of the murder. But Audas mother Susan confesses to the crime to save her
daughter. The entire Billy family comes together to solve the mystery of the murder and save
Susan. The incident draws parallels with a similar event that took place in the
same...

Describe the character of Nicholas in Saki's short story "The Lumber Room."

Nicholas is a
very smart young man who has planned out this day very carefully.  He is dying to get into that
lumber room.  There is nothing worse than being told you cannot go into a room.  He knows his
aunt well, and he knows if he puts the frog in his bread and milk in the morning, she will
arrange for the other kids to go someplace fun.  Then he will have the house to
himself. 

He is a planner.  He knows where the key is hidden, knows how he is
going to it down from the shelf, and knows how to open the door since he practiced on the
schoolroom door.  When he opens that door, he has a wonderful experience because he is very
imaginative.  While looking at the tapestry, he creates a whole scenario of what is happening in
the picture. 

But did the huntsman see, what Nicholas
saw, that four galloping wolves were coming in his direction through the wood?...... would the
man and his dogs be able to cope with the four wolves if they made an attack? (pg 4)

Later we see that he is a quick-thinker.  When the aunt becomes
trapped in the rainwater tank, she calls to him for help.   She promises to give him strawberry
jam for tea, although she has no intention of doing so.  Nicholas knows that.  Nicholas says
that he thinks she is the Evil One tempting him to disobey.  He will not give into the
temptation.  He uses the subject of the strawberry jam to convince her that she must be the Evil
one.  So he leaves her there in the rainwater tank until the kitchenmaid rescues her. 

He has a sense of humor.  The reader finds himself smiling at Nicolass ingenuity.  He
has a spirited sense of fun, which I dont think the aunt appreciated.

What makes Ralph a bad leader in Lord of the Flies? Give three examples (something he did or said) from chapters 1 through 6 to support your answer....

An
underlying problem that contributes to s difficulties is that the concept of leadership is not
necessarily endorsed by all the children. Whilevery much wants to be obeyed and even idolized,
Ralph is invested in notions of respect for authority. He is not a very imaginative person, but
he has a strong sense of responsibility. One aspect of this tendency that undermines his
position is that he confuses leadership with control. Ralph fails to grasp the importance of
leading by example; instead, he seeks to impose rules.

Ralph recognizes
thatis on the right track about the conch,...

What are the soothsayers in Dante's Inferno?

The
soothsayers are people who could foresee the future and who provided information to others based
on what they saw.The classical soothsayer Tiresias from the Oedipus cycle is one example, and
Michael Scot, the medieval polymath. There is a distinction between charlatans who only claim to
know the future and those who are indeed gifted with foresight.In the medieval period, not all
foretelling or prophetic gifts would have seemed illicit.

In Dante's
Inferno, the soothsayers occupy the 20th , among other sins involving
fraud. Dante presents fraud as more dangerous to human society and more dangerous to the
sinner's soul, compared to sins of appetite or desire and sins of violence. Fraud plays upon
others' minds and on their trust of others. When this trust is violated, so too is their
capacity to love other people in the way that God expects.

The other reason
that Dante suggests soothsayers are more serious sinners is because they seek to deprive the
human of his or her choice.Choice, says Virgil early in the journey, is the "good of the
intellect," and the poem is designed to illustrate the need to choose rightly, and to
reject false appearances. To damage a person's ability to make an authentic choice--by leading
them to believe that a future event is already a foregone conclusion--tampers with their choice
and therefore their authentic self. They may fail to strive to become the person they should be
if they believe the striving has no effect on their eventual outcome.